Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service
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Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.
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This just means you wrap your signal links in a URL shortener.

A slight hassle; but all the more reason to hate the muskratt.

We should be quietly linking anyone with a need to send a signal link to a nice privacy respecting URL shortening instance somewhere that will basically delete the link in 3-7 days unless told otherwise to keep it around by the user at creation.

Heck; host your own URL shortener while you’re at it.

questions, not to you specifically, but to anyone who stumbles upon this thread.

  • what would be a decent URL shortener that meets this criteria?
  • any pointers to host one’s own shortener? mainly i’m thinking of registrars, but also the mechanics to transform links and store data for a few days

I use Shlink, you can probably host it on a little digitalocean droplet or something similar.

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